Renaissance Important Events Flashcards

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Galileo Galilei

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  • improved the telescope in 1609
  • made discoveries about the planets and moon
  • proved that the sun was in the centre of the solar system
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Europe discovered the potato

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  • Sir Walter Raleigh went to America
  • Bought back a potato
  • 1589
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William Harvey

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  • Discovered the heart pumps blood around the body
    -1628
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Shakespeare

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  • Invented 1700 words
  • most of his phrases are being used today
  • There are many films of his plays
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Exploring

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  • Sail across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time
  • europe found ouut that north/South america existed
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Reformation

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1517
-Catholic Monk called Martin Luther started Protentisim

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Renaissance Artists

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  • Began drawing humans are they truly were
    E.g. Mona lisa 1505
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Parliament or Monarchy

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  • King Charles I – exececuted–1649
  • marked the shift from monarchy to parliament
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Printing press

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-invented by Gutenberg in 1450
- books were printed in larger numbers
- spread knowledge more quickly

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Discovery of sugar

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  • new crops came back to sugar
  • expensive
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Warfare

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-Gunpowder arrived to Europe from China
- Cannons and muskets
-1499

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